Seventy-nine citizens of the "most thickly inhabited part" of Sumter District, demand a law requiring that all boats on the Santee River be "Commanded and governed by Some respectable white person in whom Confidence can be placed." Presently, they declare, many boats are "navigated or commanded by negroe patroons," who trade with the slaves and carry off cattle, hogs, and "other articles of considerable value" from the plantations.
Result: Bill drawn.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
